Among our compatriots, there is hardly a person who has not at least once faced the question of how to glue paper wallpaper during apartment renovation.
Wallpaper is the most common typefinishing materials for walls, so the question often arises "How to glue them correctly?". Some turn to professional workers, and some prefer to do it themselves. Before gluing paper wallpaper, you need to familiarize yourself with their features.
A few tips on how to pick up and paste paper wallpapers
Paper wallpaper cannot be pasted in rooms withhigh humidity. You can confidently glue paper wallpaper in the bedroom, living room, office and children's room. First of all, they are practical, and their choice is so diverse that construction markets and specialized stores are simply overflowing with rolls of incredible colors, patterns and textures. Taboo for paper wallpaper are rooms where the humidity level exceeds generally accepted standards. Usually, this is the kitchen and bathroom, but there may be other options. You can also add a few words about the pros and cons of paper wallpaper. This option for wall decoration is quite popular. A whole list can be made of the advantages of this finishing material:
- ecological cleanliness;
- hypoallergenicity;
- air permeability;
- multicolored color palette;
- a variety of textures;
- ease of use.
Of course, it is impossible to belittle all these qualities, but it is still worth mentioning the shortcomings. These include:
- intolerance to moisture;
- service life is limited (usually 7 years);
- instability before mechanical damage.
To finally make your choice, you need tomention that paper wallpapers exist in 2 types: simplex and duplex. The advantages of simplex are price and simplicity. These are single-layer wallpapers with a surface pattern. Duplex has several layers of paper and a top protective coating. Such wallpapers last much longer, they are more resistant to ultraviolet radiation and wet cleaning. Return to contents</a>What color scheme will best fit into the interior of the apartment?
Wallpaper with a large pattern is suitable for a large room.
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How to calculate the number of wallpapers?
Table for calculating wallpaper.Before you hang paper wallpaper in your apartment, you need to know how many rolls you will need. How do you calculate this? First, determine the ceiling height. The standard value is 2.5 m. The length of a roll of paper wallpaper is 10 m, and the width is 53 cm. That is, 1 roll is enough for 4 stripes. We calculate their total width: 53 x 4 = 212 cm. Now let's find out the perimeter of the room. To do this, measure and add up the footage of 2 adjacent walls. Multiply the resulting figure by 2. Let's say the length of one wall is 8 m, and the other 6 m. We calculate (8 + 6) x 2 = 28 m, or 2800 cm. We calculate the number of rolls: 2800: 212 = 13.2 (the result is rounded up). Now we know that to stick paper wallpaper you need to buy 14 rolls. To remove the old coating, prepare the walls and stick new wallpaper you will need the following tools:
Necessary tools for wallpapering.
- roulette;
- knife;
- pencil;
- rubber cushion;
- plumb bob;
- paint brush;
- paint roller;
- putty knife;
- coarse-grained sandpaper;
- sponge;
- bucket;
- clean dry rags.
Paper wallpaper must be glued on a flat surfacesurface, so cleaning the walls from old paint and priming must be done very carefully. Otherwise, the defects will stand out against the background of the updated interior and will nullify all the efforts expended during the work. The first thing you need to do is . It is much easier to do this if you treat them with a soap solution. If difficulties still arise, then a spatula will come to the rescue. For an ideal result, the soap procedure can be repeated. The remains of enamel and oil paint should be rubbed with coarse-grained sandpaper, and whitewash and water-based paint are soaked in water and removed with a spatula. Whitewash can be removed from the walls with a foam sponge soaked in hot water, but in this case it is necessary to change the water often. If there are cracks on the work surface, they need to be expanded and plastered. Return to the table of contents</a>
How to glue a paper wallpaper: technology
Scheme for gluing paper wallpaper.After the entire surface has been cleaned, plastered and primed, the finishing material has been purchased and the necessary tools are at hand, you can glue the paper wallpaper. First, mix the glue and leave it to swell. Unroll the roll and measure out the required length. Leave 10 cm allowances at the bottom and top and cut the sheet with a wallpaper knife. Apply glue to the finished strip, fold it and leave it for 5 minutes to soak. Be especially careful to coat the edges of the wallpaper so that you don’t have to glue the edges after the repair. For reliability, roll them with a rubber roller. Wallpaper on which the pattern does not require adjustment can be cut in advance. This will speed up the work considerably. With patterned wallpaper, you will need to tinker and choose the most convenient way of gluing. Perhaps, it will be more convenient to mark the cut on the sheet to align the pattern if you attach it to the already pasted strip. To glue paper wallpaper evenly and neatly, you need to draw an upper horizontal line on the walls and vertical limiting lines along the width of the wallpaper rolls. This is easy to do with a tracer rubbed with colored chalk. The tracer is fixed at 2 opposite points, slightly pulled and released sharply. The line is perfectly even and clear. To check the verticality of the stripes during the gluing process, you need to use a plumb line. Return to the table of contents</a>
How to glue the paper wallpaper?
Paper wallpapers always start to stick fromwindow opening. In this case, the joints between the wallpaper panels are completely invisible - the pattern will be a single picture. The wallpaper is applied to the wall and smoothed with a clean, dry cloth. You need to move in the direction from the ceiling to the floor. The pasted strip is carefully straightened from the middle part to the edges. You can highlight the lower border at the level of the baseboard with a metal spatula. All excess should be cut off immediately after gluing the strip. The edges are easily removed with a wallpaper knife before the glue has time to dry. Paper wallpaper must be glued with absolute care, and for this it is recommended to de-energize the room and remove the switches and sockets. After finishing work, all this is returned to its place. Paper wallpaper will look perfect on the ceiling if you do not violate the process technology and glue them perpendicular to the window opening. This is where the finishing work with wallpaper ends. From all of the above, it is clear how. It doesn't take too much time, but it completely transforms your living space, adding beauty and comfort to it.</ ul>
